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CBS Mystery Theater-Sherlock Holmes-Scandal_in_Bohemia · Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

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Speaker 1: When you visit a museum to look at paintings, some
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Speaker 1: very few of them are referred to as having been
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Speaker 1: painted by old masters. Applying the criteria to detectives, there
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Speaker 1: would be only one who could properly be called the
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Speaker 1: old master.
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Speaker 2: He is, of course, Sherlock Holmes.
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Speaker 1: But how many of you know that... Sherlock Holmes once failed. Yes,
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Speaker 1: failed in an assignment. An assignment that involved the fate
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Speaker 1: and history of two European countries.
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Speaker 2: There is no other way, Boris. She must be kidnapped.
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Speaker 2: And then? Forced to tell where she's hidden it. You
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Speaker 2: are speaking of torture. I am speaking of overthrowing a government... Torture, murder, abduction.
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Speaker 2: These are words for the weak. We must be strong,
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Speaker 2: and we must not fail.
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Speaker 1: Our mystery drama, A Scandal in Bohemia, was adapted from
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Speaker 1: the Sherlock Holmes classic, especially for the Mystery Theater, by
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Speaker 1: Murray Burnett, and stars Kevin McCarthy. It is sponsored in
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Speaker 1: part by Exlax and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back
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Speaker 1: shortly with Act One. Sherlock Holmes looked upon love as
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Speaker 1: a nuisance. an emotion that could only unbalance the beautiful
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Speaker 1: analytic machinery of the mind, or, as his creator A.
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Speaker 1: Conan Doyle put it, grit in a sensitive instrument. And yet,
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Speaker 1: there was one woman Sherlock Holmes.
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Speaker 2: Might have loved. She appears in this story, faithfully.
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Speaker 1: And fully depicted by the admirable Watson.
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Speaker 2: Immediately after my marriage, I'd seen little of Sherlock Holmes.
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Speaker 2: All I knew about my former friend and companion was
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Speaker 2: what I'd read of his exploits in the daily press.
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Speaker 2: One night in 1888, I was returning from seeing a patient.
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Speaker 2: My way led through Baker Street, and I was seized
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Speaker 2: with a keen desire to see Holmes again. I rang
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Speaker 2: the bell of the well-remembered door, and shortly thereafter was
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Speaker 2: greeted by my friend in the sitting room.
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Speaker 1: Wedlock suits you, Watson. I think you've put on seven
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Speaker 1: and a half pounds since I last saw you.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Joe. Seven.
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Speaker 1: And you've resumed your medical practice. You didn't tell me
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Speaker 1: you were going back into harness.
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Speaker 2: Well, then how did you know it? I see it.
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Speaker 2: I deduce it.
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Speaker 1: How do I know that you've been getting yourself very
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Speaker 1: wet lately and that you've a most clumsy and careless
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Speaker 1: servant girl?
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Speaker 2: My dear Holmes, this is too much. Had you lived
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Speaker 2: a few centuries ago, you would certainly have been burned
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Speaker 2: at the stake. Well, it's true that I had a
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Speaker 2: country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mess.
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Speaker 2: But as I've changed my clothes, I can't imagine how
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Speaker 2: you'd adjust it. As to our girl, Mary Jane, she's incorrigible.
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Speaker 2: My wife has given her notice. But there again, I
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Speaker 2: fail to see how you work it out.
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Speaker 1: It's simplicity itself. My eyes tell me that on the
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Speaker 1: inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it,
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Speaker 1: the leather is scored by six parallel cuts. Now, obviously,
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Speaker 1: they've been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped
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Speaker 1: around the edges of the soul to remove the crusted
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Speaker 1: mud from it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, George.
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Speaker 1: Hence my double deduction that you've been out in wet
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Speaker 1: weather and that you have a particularly careless servant.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you know, you always make it sound so simple.
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Speaker 2: But how about my resuming my medical practice?
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Speaker 1: Oh, come, Watson. If a gentleman walks into my room
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Speaker 1: smelling of iota form with a black mark of nitrate
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Speaker 1: of silver upon his right forefinger and a buzz on
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Speaker 1: the right side of his top hat showing where he
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Speaker 1: secreted his stethoscope... I must be a dull dog indeed
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Speaker 1: if I don't pronounce him an active member of the
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Speaker 1: medical profession.
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Speaker 2: Each time you explain your process, it appears that anyone
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Speaker 2: can do it. And I know my eyes are quite
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Speaker 2: as good as yours.
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Speaker 1: Of course. You see, but you do not observe. By
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Speaker 1: the way, you may be interested in this which came
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Speaker 1: by the last post. Read it.
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Speaker 2: All right. There will call upon you tonight at a
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Speaker 2: quarter to eight o'clock... a gentleman who desires to consult
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Speaker 2: you upon a matter of the very deepest moment. Your
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Speaker 2: recent services to one of the royal houses of Europe...
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Speaker 2: have shown that you are one who may safely be
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Speaker 2: trusted with matters... which are of an importance which can
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Speaker 2: hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from
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Speaker 2: all quarters received... Be in your chamber then at that
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Speaker 2: hour and do not take it amiss if your visitor
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Speaker 2: wears a mask. This is indeed most mysterious, Holmes. What
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Speaker 2: do you imagine it means?
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Speaker 1: Well, it's a capital mistake to theorize before you have data,
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Speaker 1: but we do have the note itself. What do you
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Speaker 1: deduce from it?
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Speaker 2: Well, the man who wrote it was presumably well-to-do. This
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Speaker 2: paper can't be bought under half a crown a packet.
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Speaker 2: It's peculiarly strong and stiff. Peculiar?
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Speaker 1: That's the very word. Hold it up to the light
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Speaker 1: and tell me what you make of the initials woven
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Speaker 1: into the texture of the paper.
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Speaker 3: I make out a large E, a small G, a
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Speaker 3: capital P, and a large G, and a small T.
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Speaker 2: No doubt the name of the maker, perhaps his monogram.
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Speaker 1: Not at all. The large G with the small T
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Speaker 1: stands for Gesellschaft, which is German for company. It's a
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Speaker 1: customary contraction. P, of course, stands for Papier. And now
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Speaker 1: for the EG, let's take a look at our Continental Gazetteer. Eglow, Eglonitz,
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Speaker 1: here we are. Egeria. It's a German-speaking country in Bohemia,
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Speaker 1: not far from Carlsbad. remarkable as being the scene of
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Speaker 1: the death of Wallenstein and for its numerous glass factories
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Speaker 1: and paper mills. Now, Watson, what do you make of it?
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Speaker 2: The paper was made in Bahrainia.
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Speaker 1: Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German.
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Speaker 2: That's only a possibility, Holmes. He could have purchased the paper.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, Watson. Note the peculiar construction of the sentence.
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Speaker 1: This account of you we have from all quarters received...
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Speaker 1: A Frenchman or a Russian could never have written that.
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Speaker 1: Only a German is so uncourteous to his verbs as
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Speaker 1: to place them at the very end of a sentence.
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Speaker 1: It remains, therefore, to discover what is wanted by this
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Speaker 1: German who writes upon bohemian paper and prefers wearing a
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Speaker 1: mask to showing his face. And, if I'm not mistaken,
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Speaker 1: he's arriving now.
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Speaker 2: Holmes pressed me to stay. I remained seated, and Holmes
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Speaker 2: opened the door to admit a man who was at
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Speaker 2: least six foot six, with the limbs and chest of
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Speaker 2: a Hercules. He was dressed so richly as to be
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Speaker 2: considered almost in bad taste. He topped off his rich
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Speaker 2: costume with a black visored mask, which he'd evidently just
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Speaker 2: adjusted as he entered. He spoke with a German accent.
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Speaker 2: looking from one of us to another as if uncertain
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Speaker 2: which one to address. You had my note.
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Speaker 1: I told you that I would call. Hey, take a seat.
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Speaker 1: This is my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson, who is
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Speaker 1: occasionally kind enough to help me with my cases.
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Speaker 2: Oh, well.
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Speaker 1: Whom do I have the honor to address?
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Speaker 2: You may address me as the Count von Kram, a
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Speaker 2: bohemian nobleman. I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is
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Speaker 2: a man of honor and discretion, whom I may trust
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Speaker 2: with a matter of most extreme importance. If not, I
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Speaker 2: must communicate with you alone.
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Speaker 1: It's both or none. You may say before this gentleman
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Speaker 1: anything which you may say to me.
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Speaker 2: Then I must begin by binding you both to absolute
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Speaker 2: secrecy for two years. At the end of that time,
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Speaker 2: the matter will be of no importance. At the moment,
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Speaker 2: it is not too much to say. That it is
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Speaker 2: of such weight it may have an influence upon European history.
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Speaker 1: I promise.
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Speaker 2: And I... You will excuse this mask. The august person
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Speaker 2: who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to you.
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Speaker 2: And I confess at once that the title by which
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Speaker 2: I call myself is.
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Speaker 1: Not exactly my own. I was aware of it.
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Speaker 2: Every precaution has to be taken to quench what might
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Speaker 2: grow to be an immense scandal and seriously compromise one
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Speaker 2: of the reigning families. To speak plainly, the matter involves
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Speaker 2: the great house of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia.
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Speaker 1: I was also aware of that.
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Speaker 2: You surprise me.
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Speaker 1: If your majesty would condescend to state your case, I
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Speaker 1: should be better able to advise you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you are right. I am the king. Why should
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Speaker 2: I attempt to conceal it?
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Speaker 1: Why, indeed, your majesty had not spoken four words before
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Speaker 1: I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Katzreich von Ormstein,
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Speaker 1: Grand Duke of Castle Telstein and hereditary king of Bohemia.
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Speaker 2: And you can understand I am not accustomed to doing
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Speaker 2: such business in my own person. Yet the matter is
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Speaker 2: so delicate I cannot confide in an agent. without putting
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Speaker 2: myself in his power. I come incognito from Prague to
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Speaker 2: consult you.
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Speaker 1: Then pray consult. Briefly, these are the facts.
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Speaker 2: Some years ago, during our lengthy visit to Warsaw, I
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Speaker 2: made the acquaintance of a well-known adventurist, Irene Atler. Her
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Speaker 2: name is no doubt familiar to you.
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Speaker 1: Will you be so kind as to look her up
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Speaker 1: in my index, Doctor?
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Speaker 2: Oh, gladly, Holmes. Your index is complete, Holmes, but not
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Speaker 2: in the best of order. So I'm glad that her
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Speaker 2: name starts with an A. Here she is.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Now, let me see.
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Speaker 2: Hmm.
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Speaker 1: Born in New Jersey, 1858. Primadonna, Imperial Opera of Warsaw. Contralto,
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Speaker 1: retired from the stage, living now in London.
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Speaker 2: Ah, quite so.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, doctor. And now your majesty, as I understand,
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Speaker 1: became entangled with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters,
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Speaker 1: and is now anxious to get these letters back.
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Speaker 2: Precisely so.
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Speaker 1: But how did you... Was there a secret marriage?
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Speaker 2: Oh, of course not.
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Speaker 1: Legal papers? Certificates?
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Speaker 4: None.
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Speaker 1: Well, then I fail to follow, Your Majesty. If this
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Speaker 1: person should produce her letters for blackmail or other purposes,
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Speaker 1: how is she to prove their authenticity? There is the writing.
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Speaker 2: Proof. Forgery. My private notepaper. Stolen. My own seal. Imitated.
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Speaker 2: My photograph. Bought.
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Speaker 1: We were both in the picture.
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Speaker 2: Oh, dear.
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Speaker 1: That is fairly bad. Your Majesty has indeed committed an indiscretion.
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Speaker 1: And so, as this story, A Scandal in Bohemia, shows,
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Speaker 1: Holmes was not unknown to royalty. And royalty, despite masks,
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Speaker 1: could not stay unknown to Holmes.
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Speaker 2: We'll be back with.
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Speaker 1: The pressing problem of the King of Bohemia and meet
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Speaker 1: Irene Adler, the woman, shortly.
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Speaker 2: The King of.
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Speaker 1: Bohemia Sherlock Holmes in love perished the thought. And yet,
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Speaker 1: of all the tales of Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by
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Speaker 1: his friend, Dr. Watson, there's no other adventure in which
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Speaker 1: he expresses as much admiration for a woman as he
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Speaker 1: does for Irene Adler. And keep in mind, she came
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Speaker 1: to his attention not as a client, but as an adversary.
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Speaker 1: But it's best we let Watson continue the story.
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Speaker 2: I was watching His Majesty's face. The moment Holmes said
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Speaker 2: he'd committed a serious indiscretion, his face flushed. I was mad, insane.
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Speaker 2: But remember, I was a young crown prince then. I
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Speaker 2: didn't realize the consequences.
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Speaker 1: It must be recovered.
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Speaker 2: Don't you think we have tried and failed?
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Speaker 1: Then it must be bought.
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Speaker 2: She will not sell.
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Speaker 1: Stolen then?
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Speaker 2: Five attempts at obtaining the photograph have been made. Twice
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Speaker 2: I had burglars ransack her house. Once we diverted her
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Speaker 2: luggage when she traveled. The luggage was searched thoroughly. Twice
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Speaker 2: she has been waylaid and her purse taken of her
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Speaker 2: has been no result.
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Speaker 1: And what does she propose to do with the photograph?
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Speaker 2: Ruin me.
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Speaker 1: How? I am about to be married.
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Speaker 2: My fiancée is the second daughter of the King of Scandinavia.
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Speaker 2: A shadow of a doubt as to my youthful conduct
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Speaker 2: would end the engagement and bring about some very serious
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Speaker 2: side effects as well.
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Speaker 1: And Irene Adler? Threatens to send the photograph.
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Speaker 2: Uh-huh. And I know she will do as she says.
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Speaker 2: Rather than I should vet another, there are no lengths
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Speaker 2: to which she will not go. None.
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Speaker 1: You're sure she hasn't sent it yet?
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Speaker 2: I am certain.
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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. On what do you base this certain date?
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Speaker 2: Because she has said that she would send it on
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Speaker 2: the day when the betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will
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Speaker 2: be next Monday.
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Speaker 1: Then we still have three days. Your Majesty will, of course,
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Speaker 1: stay in London for the present.
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Speaker 2: Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the
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Speaker 2: name Count von Kram.
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Speaker 1: Watson, would you take down the lady's address when His
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Speaker 1: Majesty gives it to you?
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Speaker 2: Sure. Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood.
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Speaker 1: Very good. And now, good evening, Your Majesty. I trust
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Speaker 1: that we shall soon have some good news for you.
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Speaker 2: Holmes asked me to come around the next day at three.
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Speaker 2: When I arrived, he wasn't there. He'd run into unexpected
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Speaker 2: complications that I was to hear about when he returned
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Speaker 2: shortly after four. Well, accustomed as I was to my
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Speaker 2: friend's amazing powers and the use of disguises... I had
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Speaker 2: to look more than once to make certain that the drunken-looking, ill-kempt,
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Speaker 2: side-whiskered groom was indeed he.
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Speaker 1: Watson, I'm sure you could never guess how I employed
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Speaker 1: my morning or what I ended by doing.
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Speaker 2: Well, I suppose you've been watching the habits and perhaps
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Speaker 2: the house of Miss Sirene Adler.
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Speaker 1: Quite so. I can tell you that we are not
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Speaker 1: the only ones after that photograph.
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Speaker 2: Well, you mean the king has employed others in the
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Speaker 2: same capacity as you?
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Speaker 1: I think not. But let me give you a picture
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Speaker 1: of the day's happenings. I left the house a little
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Speaker 1: after eight this morning disguised as a groom seeking work.
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Speaker 1: Irene Adler has turned all the men's heads around Briony Lane.
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Speaker 1: After giving a few of the ostlers a hand in
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Speaker 1: rubbing down their horses, I came upon a character who
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Speaker 1: seemed equally interested in the topic of Miss Irene Adler
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Speaker 1: as I. We fell into a conversation as he bought
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Speaker 1: me a glass of half-and-half in a neighboring pub.
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Speaker 2: Here's to the ladies, God bless them. And to Miss
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Speaker 2: Irene Adler in particular. Thank you. May they all be
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Speaker 2: as beautiful as she and as rich.
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Speaker 1: She's well off, then.
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Speaker 2: You seem like the kind of person a brook can trust.
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Speaker 2: Are you trustworthy, mate? It all depends. There might be
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Speaker 2: a lot of reasons for you to be trustworthy if
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Speaker 2: you don't mind taking a few risks.
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Speaker 1: It all depends on what kind of risks you're talking about.
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Speaker 2: Oh, nothing very big. Just helping out a little with
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Speaker 2: the job we have in mind. Hmm? Who's we?
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Speaker 1: I don't like working blind. I have to know what
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Speaker 1: kind of job you're talking about.
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Speaker 2: Well... You might say it was a kind of a lark.
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Speaker 1: With a lady who lives at Bryony Lodge?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a sharp one, you are. That's the very one.
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Speaker 2: Just a bit of a lark, that's all. The reason
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Speaker 2: I picked you, mate, was because you have an honest
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Speaker 2: face and showed a lot of interest in the lady yourself.
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Speaker 2: You see, I was listening to you, mate.
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Speaker 1: Why, I thought it might be a good verse for me.
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Speaker 2: What I have in mind might pay you a lot better. Huh?
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Speaker 1: How much are we talking about?
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Speaker 2: Fifty pounds. Fifty?
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Speaker 1: You didn't think I had an honest vice? You thought
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Speaker 1: I had a stupid vice? Now let me tell you, mate.
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Speaker 1: I don't go for the rough stuff so you can
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Speaker 1: forget about me right now.
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Speaker 2: The fifty ain't all for you. I need four or
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Speaker 2: five boys who don't mind creating a bit of a
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Speaker 2: dust-up around Brioni Lodge. And I need them tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Good luck. I ain't going to be one of them.
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Speaker 2: I was thinking you'd get them for me. You look
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Speaker 2: like a fellow who might know some chaps who don't
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Speaker 2: mind a bit of fun and.
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Speaker 1: You keep on about a bit of fun. Yes, you
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Speaker 1: keep on and on about that. And your idea of
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Speaker 1: fun and mine might not be the same, if you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: Well, you heard what all the grooms were saying about
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Speaker 2: Mademoiselle's boyfriend. The one who visits her so frequent. Aye. Well,
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Speaker 2: his best friend wants to play a little joke, you see.
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Speaker 2: Sort of stage a kidnapping. Not a real one, of course, but...
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Speaker 2: Me and my partner will spirit her away, and then
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Speaker 2: her boyfriend's pal sort of says, April Fool. And the
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Speaker 2: joke's over.
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Speaker 1: Don't sound very funny to me.
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Speaker 2: A real gent's idea of fun is different than you
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Speaker 2: and me. Well, mate, what do you say? My joke, Holmes.
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Speaker 2: This fellow sounds a proper villain. What did you say?
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Speaker 1: Accepted his offer, of course. And got myself 25 pounds
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Speaker 1: in advance.
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Speaker 2: But Holmes, you can't possibly be contemplating doing what this
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Speaker 2: fellow asks. Surely you must see that he's not joking,
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Speaker 2: that he means to abduct Miss Adler.
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Speaker 1: Of course, but you haven't allowed me to finish my
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Speaker 1: day's adventures. The last part caps it all. After striking
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Speaker 1: the bargain with his scoundrel, I set off on my
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Speaker 1: own to take a closer look at Bione Lodge and
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Speaker 1: see how I could best turn these events to our
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Speaker 1: advantage when a handsome cab clattered up to the lady's
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Speaker 1: door and a dark, handsome gentleman jumped out.
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Speaker 2: Wait for me, driver. I won't be a moment.
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Speaker 1: He was as good as his word. A few minutes later,
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Speaker 1: he came down the steps, ran down, jumped into the
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Speaker 1: cab and shouted... Drive like the devil.
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Speaker 2: First to Grouse and Hankey's in Regent Street and then
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Speaker 2: to the church of St. Monica in Edgeware Road. Half
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Speaker 2: a guinea if you do it in 20 minutes.
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Speaker 1: He and his Hanson were... out of sight before a
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Speaker 1: neat little land owl drew up before the house, and
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Speaker 1: I had my first glimpse of Miss Irene Adler as
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Speaker 1: she rushed from the house.
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Speaker 4: The church is in Monaco, John, and half a sovereign
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Speaker 4: if you can reach it in 20 minutes.
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Speaker 1: This was quite too good to lose, so while I
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Speaker 1: was debating whether or not to make a run for it,
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Speaker 1: and perched behind her land owl, a cab came down
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Speaker 1: the street. Before the driver could object to my shabby appearance,
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Speaker 1: I jumped in, showed him a coin, and parrot-like said,
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Speaker 1: the Church of St. Monica, and half a sovereign if
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Speaker 1: you make it in 20 minutes.
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Speaker 5: But this is absurd, Jeff.
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Speaker 4: You're naughty not to approve it.
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Speaker 2: If everything was being done in such a rush, darling,
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Speaker 2: I never thought about a witness.
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Speaker 5: Well, here. This nice-looking gentleman, he'll do.
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Speaker 2: Oh, thank heaven. Thank the Lord. Come on, man. What?
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Speaker 1: What do you want?
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Speaker 2: A witness.
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Speaker 4: A witness to our marriage. And we not only thank you,
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Speaker 4: but we thank St.
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Speaker 2: Monica.
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Speaker 1: It was the most preposterous position I've ever found myself
20:51
Speaker 1: in my life. The bride gave me a sovereign, and
20:54
Speaker 1: I mean the word, on my watch chain and memory
20:56
Speaker 1: of the occasion.
20:59
Speaker 2: But doesn't this sudden marriage threaten everything?
21:01
Speaker 1: It certainly seemed to menace our plan seriously.
21:04
Speaker 2: However.
21:04
Speaker 1: When they separated at the church door, I heard her
21:07
Speaker 1: tell him that she would drive out in the park
21:09
Speaker 1: at five as usual. So then I went off and
21:12
Speaker 1: made my own arrangements for tonight.
21:14
Speaker 2: Which are?
21:15
Speaker 1: To be revealed to you after some cold beef and
21:18
Speaker 1: a glass of beer to fortify ourselves for this evening's work.
21:25
Speaker 2: I don't like it where Ernst is dangerous. Boris, it's
21:30
Speaker 2: our only alternative. To rely on this half-drunken groom you
21:34
Speaker 2: meet in a bar? I've already explained to you he
21:37
Speaker 2: was interested in Briony Lodge and Miss Adler. Can we
21:42
Speaker 2: trust him? Of course not. But we can rely on
21:46
Speaker 2: his greed. You didn't see the way he snatched the
21:49
Speaker 2: 25 pounds advance. I still do not like it. Oh, why, Grant,
21:54
Speaker 2: it's not ideal, but there's very little risk. Once we
21:58
Speaker 2: have the lady and the carriage, we drive off. What
22:01
Speaker 2: can he tell the police? Everything, which is little enough.
22:06
Speaker 2: He doesn't even know my name. He's never seen you.
22:09
Speaker 2: In half an hour, we'll be safely hidden. And I
22:12
Speaker 2: promise you'll have the location of the photograph out of
22:15
Speaker 2: her before the search has had time to get organized.
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Speaker 1: Ah, now that the inner man's been satisfied, Watson, let's
22:28
Speaker 1: set our plans. I shall need your cooperation.
22:32
Speaker 2: Oh, I shall be delighted.
22:34
Speaker 1: Now, Miss Adler always returns from her drive in the
22:37
Speaker 1: park at seven. We must be on hand to meet her.
22:40
Speaker 1: I've already engaged the services of several stout lads who
22:44
Speaker 1: will create the uproar that I promised my companion in
22:47
Speaker 1: the pub.
22:48
Speaker 2: You're not going to throw in with those villains, after all?
22:51
Speaker 1: Oh, only to the extent of creating a disturbance, which
22:54
Speaker 1: I intend to put to our advantage, of course. My
22:57
Speaker 1: lads are instructed to see that on no account will
22:59
Speaker 1: the lady be taken.
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Speaker 2: But won't the other people know that?
23:03
Speaker 1: In the confusion, they'll only know that their plans have
23:06
Speaker 1: gone awry.
23:07
Speaker 2: Oh. Do you have any idea who they are or
23:10
Speaker 2: what they want with the photograph?
23:12
Speaker 1: Only that they've definitely not been hired by His Majesty.
23:15
Speaker 1: As to the rest, I can hazard a guess or two.
23:18
Speaker 1: Either they want the photograph to extort a pretty penny
23:21
Speaker 1: from Miss Majesty, or from some political purpose. In either case,
23:26
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. What is important is your role.
23:29
Speaker 2: Well, I'm impatient to hear it.
23:30
Speaker 1: There will be some unpleasantness, but on no account are
23:34
Speaker 1: you to interfere. I promise you it will all end
23:37
Speaker 1: with my being conveyed into the lady's sitting room. Four
23:40
Speaker 1: or five minutes afterwards, the sitting room window will open.
23:43
Speaker 1: You are to station yourself close to that window.
23:47
Speaker 2: Is that all?
23:49
Speaker 1: No, by no means. Now, I have here an ordinary
23:53
Speaker 1: plumber's smoke rocket fitted with a self-igniting cap at either end.
23:58
Speaker 1: You will throw this through the open window into the
24:01
Speaker 1: room at the same time raising a good, loud cry
24:04
Speaker 1: of fire. Understood?
24:06
Speaker 2: Yes, but.
24:08
Speaker 1: I haven't finished on it. Your cry will then be
24:10
Speaker 1: taken up by a considerable number of people in the street.
24:13
Speaker 1: Then your part is finished. Walk to the end of
24:16
Speaker 1: the street where I will rejoin you in ten minutes.
24:21
Speaker 2: Claire, for the life of me, I can't see how
24:24
Speaker 2: you know you'll be taken into the room and the
24:27
Speaker 2: window open.
24:28
Speaker 1: The explanation will have to wait because now I must
24:32
Speaker 1: change for my new role.
24:38
Speaker 2: To my astonishment, when Holmes came out from his chamber,
24:42
Speaker 2: he was dressed as an elderly clergyman. And once again
24:46
Speaker 2: I thought, what a fine actor the stage had lost
24:49
Speaker 2: when he elected to become a consulting detective. We shortly
24:53
Speaker 2: afterwards were pacing up and down outside Irene Adler's house
24:57
Speaker 2: in St. John's Wood.
24:59
Speaker 1: Ah, I see that my lads are all in position.
25:02
Speaker 1: And so are you, Watson, because here we are outside
25:05
Speaker 1: the sitting room window.
25:06
Speaker 2: And you promised to explain to me how you're going
25:08
Speaker 2: to get yourself inside and have the window open.
25:11
Speaker 1: All in good time. But the key question remains, where
25:15
Speaker 1: do we find the photograph?
25:17
Speaker 2: Probably at her bank or her attorney's.
25:20
Speaker 1: No, I think neither. It's much too precious for her
25:23
Speaker 1: to have it out of her possession. It's in the house.
25:25
Speaker 2: But it's been burgled twice.
25:27
Speaker 1: Sure, they didn't know how to look.
25:29
Speaker 2: Well, how will you look?
25:31
Speaker 1: I'll get her to show me.
25:33
Speaker 2: Ridiculous. Chris Bounder refused.
25:36
Speaker 1: She won't be able to.
25:38
Speaker 2: Incredible.
25:39
Speaker 1: It will all be clear to you, but we have
25:40
Speaker 1: no more time. It's almost the hour. I think I
25:43
Speaker 1: see her carriage in the distance. Now, carry out my
25:47
Speaker 1: order to the letter. St. John's Wood has always been
26:08
Speaker 1: an exclusive, quiet residential section of London. But in a
26:12
Speaker 1: very few minutes, that quiet is to be shattered by
26:16
Speaker 1: some shocking incidents masterminded by Sherlock Holmes. We'll share with
26:21
Speaker 1: Watson an understanding of Holmes' scheme when I return with
26:26
Speaker 1: Act Three.
26:26
Speaker 2: Act Three.
26:39
Speaker 1: At the very beginning of this story, I spoke of
26:42
Speaker 1: the possibility of Sherlock Holmes being in love. You may
26:46
Speaker 1: wonder how anyone could fall in love with a woman
26:49
Speaker 1: whom he's seen only once, and then at her hurried wedding.
26:53
Speaker 1: But there's more to come. And if I may borrow
26:56
Speaker 1: from the master, all in good time. Now let's rejoin
27:01
Speaker 1: Sherlock Holmes and Watson.
27:04
Speaker 2: Holmes, artfully disguised as an elderly clergyman, and I strolled
27:09
Speaker 2: up and down in front of Irene Adler's house in St.
27:12
Speaker 2: John's Wood. Holmes caught my eye with the unusually large
27:16
Speaker 2: amount of activity in the street. I reminded him that
27:20
Speaker 2: he told me they were mostly his men.
27:22
Speaker 1: Not all, Watson. See that, sir?
27:24
Speaker 2: Yes.
27:25
Speaker 1: That's... Ah, I see. I am sure he ought to
27:29
Speaker 1: appear that some of my blood will be spilled. But
27:32
Speaker 1: rest assured, that's what they seem.
27:33
Speaker 2: There. They come to a stop before I saw the
27:36
Speaker 2: scissors grinder spring forward and snatch the handle to a...
27:44
Speaker 2: and Irene Atter's carriage was surrounded by a score of yelling,
27:48
Speaker 2: cursing men. Boris! Boris!
27:52
Speaker 1: Help me!
27:53
Speaker 2: These fools won't let me through! Stand back! I want
27:57
Speaker 2: to assist the lady! I saw Holmes stride into the crowd,
28:02
Speaker 2: which seemed to make way for him, as he cried out,
28:05
Speaker 2: You rogues!
28:06
Speaker 4: Villains!
28:07
Speaker 2: How dare you assault a lady? Then, suddenly, I saw
28:11
Speaker 2: him clap a hand on his nose, and he was down,
28:14
Speaker 2: with a blood stream coming from his nose. When he fell,
28:19
Speaker 2: I heard a policeman's whistle, and a number of the
28:22
Speaker 2: loafers took to their heels. Irene Adler had hurried up
28:26
Speaker 2: the steps, but then stood at the top. Looking back
28:30
Speaker 2: into the street, she called out, That gentleman hurt?
28:34
Speaker 4: He needs help. Well, he can't lie here in the street.
28:37
Speaker 4: Bring him in.
28:38
Speaker 5: There's a comfortable sofa in my sitting room.
28:39
Speaker 4: We'll get a doctor.
28:43
Speaker 2: Slowly and solemnly, Holmes was carried into Briony Lodge and
28:48
Speaker 2: placed carefully on the sofa. The lamps had been lit,
28:52
Speaker 2: but the blinds hadn't been drawn, so I could see
28:55
Speaker 2: him as he lay on the couch. This truly, wondrously
28:59
Speaker 2: beautiful woman bending tenderly over him. After a moment or two,
29:04
Speaker 2: I saw him raise himself with some difficulty, and they
29:07
Speaker 2: began talking. He later told me how the conversation went.
29:12
Speaker 5: I don't think you should sit up.
29:15
Speaker 1: I'm quite all right, dear lady. I'm more concerned about you.
29:19
Speaker 4: Oh, thanks to your bravery, I just had an unpleasant moment.
29:24
Speaker 2: What is it?
29:24
Speaker 1: What is it? Nothing to be alarmed about, I'm sure, but...
29:28
Speaker 1: If I could have some air.
29:30
Speaker 2: Oh, of course.
29:31
Speaker 5: Marie, open the windows.
29:35
Speaker 2: As the maid opened the window, I saw Holmes raise
29:39
Speaker 2: his hand. The moment her back was turned, I tossed
29:42
Speaker 2: the rocket into the room and shouted, Fire! The crowd
29:45
Speaker 2: was instantly taken up as thick clouds of smoke curled
29:49
Speaker 2: through the room and out the window. I slipped through
29:52
Speaker 2: the crowd and made my way to the end of
29:54
Speaker 2: the street and waited. In ten minutes, I was rejoiced
29:58
Speaker 2: to find my friend's arm in mine, and we walked
30:00
Speaker 2: swiftly away from the scene.
30:03
Speaker 1: You did it very nicely, Doctor. Everything's right as rain.
30:07
Speaker 2: You have the photograph?
30:08
Speaker 1: I know where it is.
30:09
Speaker 2: Oh, how did you find out?
30:11
Speaker 1: As I told you, she showed me.
30:14
Speaker 2: Well, I'm still in the dark.
30:15
Speaker 1: When a woman thinks her house is on fire, her
30:17
Speaker 1: instinct is at once to rush to the thing she
30:20
Speaker 1: values most. Our lady today had nothing more precious to
30:23
Speaker 1: her than the photograph that we seek. When the alarm
30:26
Speaker 1: of fire was raised, she rushed to secure it.
30:29
Speaker 2: And she did?
30:30
Speaker 1: The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel
30:34
Speaker 1: just above the right bell pole. She was there in
30:37
Speaker 1: an instant, and I caught just a glimpse of it
30:41
Speaker 1: as she half drew it out.
30:42
Speaker 2: And now?
30:44
Speaker 1: We've almost reached our goal, and yet there's something gnawing
30:48
Speaker 1: at the back of my mind. Let me repeat the
30:51
Speaker 1: conversation that took place between us after it was discovered
30:54
Speaker 1: that the fire was only a false alarm. It may
30:58
Speaker 1: perhaps suggest something to you.
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Speaker 5: My dear Reverend.
31:03
Speaker 1: Forsythe, madam.
31:05
Speaker 5: Madam?
31:07
Speaker 4: How very observant of you to notice my wedding ring.
31:11
Speaker 4: It's so new to me that madam quite startled me.
31:14
Speaker 2: I apologize. I should certainly.
31:17
Speaker 1: be unable to bear the thought of bringing you any
31:20
Speaker 1: further excitement or trouble.
31:22
Speaker 4: It has been a hectic five or ten minutes, Reverend,
31:26
Speaker 4: and I must thank you for your courage in coming
31:28
Speaker 4: to my aid.
31:29
Speaker 5: At your age, it might have been dangerous.
31:31
Speaker 1: It was only a Christian act. Providential that I happen
31:35
Speaker 1: to be passing.
31:36
Speaker 4: Heaven does seem to be looking after me and my
31:39
Speaker 4: belongings lately.
31:40
Speaker 1: Heaven looks after us all, dear lady.
31:43
Speaker 4: Providence does seem to be taking a special interest in me.
31:47
Speaker 4: Only yesterday, when it appeared that my marriage might have
31:50
Speaker 4: to be put off... because my future husband and I
31:53
Speaker 4: needed a witness there... quite providentially appeared a somewhat tipsy groom...
31:58
Speaker 4: who served as a witness for us. And now, today...
32:02
Speaker 4: I'm almost set upon by a band of toughs, and
32:05
Speaker 4: the Lord sends me an elderly but foolhardy minister who
32:09
Speaker 4: risks his life and limb for a strange lady.
32:12
Speaker 1: It does seem that you're blessed.
32:14
Speaker 4: And now, when for a moment it appeared that my house,
32:17
Speaker 4: with all its lovely furnishings, would be ravaged by fire,
32:21
Speaker 4: I am again saved, when it proves to be a
32:23
Speaker 4: false alarm.
32:25
Speaker 1: You may indeed consider yourself fortunate. But if you don't mind, I.
32:31
Speaker 2: Feel quite recovered.
32:33
Speaker 5: I'll have my coachman take you wherever you are going.
32:35
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think of it, dear madam. You've done quite
32:39
Speaker 1: enough for me as it is. I felt that it
32:43
Speaker 1: was wise to leave as quickly and with as little
32:45
Speaker 1: fuss as possible. And so I met with you.
32:48
Speaker 2: Well, then why this unease? From what you told me,
32:52
Speaker 2: you accomplished everything you set out to do.
32:54
Speaker 1: I did, and yet.
32:57
Speaker 1: Oh, hang it, man. It's just that there was something
33:01
Speaker 1: in her eyes.
33:02
Speaker 2: Oh, come now, Holmes. Don't tell me that you're mooning
33:09
Speaker 2: over a woman.
33:10
Speaker 1: Not at all, not at all. You misunderstand. But, uh,
33:14
Speaker 1: here we are in crowded Baker Street. Do you have
33:16
Speaker 1: the key?
33:17
Speaker 2: Well.
33:17
Speaker 1: Of course not, dear me. I fear I'm getting somewhat absent-minded.
33:22
Speaker 2: Ah.
33:23
Speaker 1: Here's the key. It slipped a little during all my exertions.
33:26
Speaker 4: Good night, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
33:29
Speaker 1: Who was that?
33:30
Speaker 2: Search me. Some young lad in an Ulster. He's just
33:34
Speaker 2: now hurrying off.
33:36
Speaker 1: I swear I've heard that voice before. I wonder who
33:40
Speaker 1: the deuce it could have been.
33:42
Speaker 2: Holmes took the puzzle of the voice to bed with him.
33:51
Speaker 2: He also invited me to spend the night because we
33:53
Speaker 2: were to be up so early the next morning. After
33:56
Speaker 2: sending message off to my wife... I went to bed,
33:59
Speaker 2: and next morning around seven, we were engaged upon our
34:02
Speaker 2: toast and coffee when I inquired of Holmes the reason
34:05
Speaker 2: for our early rising.
34:07
Speaker 1: We're up at this hour, Watson, because the king shall
34:09
Speaker 1: be here shortly.
34:10
Speaker 2: His Majesty.
34:11
Speaker 1: I thought it might give him some satisfaction to regain
34:13
Speaker 1: the photograph with his own hands.
34:15
Speaker 2: Well, that still doesn't answer... The lady will.
34:17
Speaker 1: Probably not be up when we call. We shall be
34:20
Speaker 1: shown into the sitting room, and when she comes down,
34:23
Speaker 1: she may find neither us nor the photograph.
34:27
Speaker 2: You have really got it.
34:29
Speaker 1: Hmm? Not yet.
34:30
Speaker 2: But you have hopes.
34:31
Speaker 1: I have hopes.
34:32
Speaker 2: Ah, let's come. I am all impatience to be gone.
34:34
Speaker 1: Ah, we must have a cab.
34:36
Speaker 2: No, my prom is waiting.
34:37
Speaker 1: Ah, that simplifies matters. Come along, Watson. The game is
34:41
Speaker 1: truly afoot.
34:47
Speaker 2: In no time at all, we found ourselves in the
34:50
Speaker 2: king's carriage, spinning along toward Briony Lodge and Irene Adler.
34:55
Speaker 1: Irene Adler is married, Your Majesty. Married? Where?
35:00
Speaker 2: Yesterday. But to whom?
35:01
Speaker 1: To an English lawyer named Norton.
35:04
Speaker 2: Impossible.
35:04
Speaker 1: I was a witness to the wedding.
35:06
Speaker 2: That is not what I meant. She could not love him.
35:09
Speaker 1: I'm in hopes that she does. And why in hopes?
35:12
Speaker 1: Because it would spare your majesty all fear of future annoyance.
35:16
Speaker 1: If the lady loves her husband, she does not love
35:19
Speaker 1: your majesty. If she does not love your majesty, there
35:22
Speaker 1: is no reason why she should interfere with your majesty's
35:25
Speaker 1: nuptial plans.
35:26
Speaker 2: Well, what you say is true. And yet... You.
35:31
Speaker 1: Still have doubts? Not about the truth, but.
35:34
Speaker 2: To say it. It is just that I wish she
35:38
Speaker 2: had been of my own station. What a cream she
35:43
Speaker 2: would have made. After that statement, the king relapsed into
35:53
Speaker 2: a somewhat moody silence. When we drew up in front
35:57
Speaker 2: of Briony Lodge, the door was open and Marie, the maid,
36:01
Speaker 2: stood upon the steps. She watched us with a curious
36:05
Speaker 2: expression as we stepped from the brougham and approached the door.
36:08
Speaker 4: You are Mr.
36:10
Speaker 5: Sherlock Holmes?
36:11
Speaker 1: I am, Mr.
36:12
Speaker 2: Holmes.
36:12
Speaker 5: The mistress said you would, how you say, come to call.
36:15
Speaker 1: She did?
36:17
Speaker 2: Where... Is.
36:18
Speaker 4: Well, she left this morning with her husband by the
36:21
Speaker 4: 515 train from Charing Cross. She goes to Paris and
36:23
Speaker 4: then for a continental tour.
36:25
Speaker 1: You mean to tell me that she has left the country?
36:28
Speaker 4: Oui.
36:28
Speaker 5: Never to return.
36:30
Speaker 2: The photograph. All is lost.
36:32
Speaker 1: Louis-Francis, come.
36:33
Speaker 2: Quickly. The three of us rushed past the demure maid
36:38
Speaker 2: and Holmes led us to the bell pool, tore back
36:41
Speaker 2: the small sliding panel and pulled out a photograph and
36:44
Speaker 2: a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler, herself, in
36:49
Speaker 2: the evening dress. The letter was inscribed to Sherlock Holmes, Esquire,
36:55
Speaker 2: to be left till called for. My friend tore it open.
36:59
Speaker 2: It was dated at midnight of the preceding night. We
37:02
Speaker 2: all three crowded around together to read it. I swear
37:06
Speaker 2: that as we started, we could hear her voice. At
37:10
Speaker 2: least from the expression on Holmes' and His Majesty's faces,
37:14
Speaker 2: they could.
37:16
Speaker 5: My dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, you really did it very well.
37:21
Speaker 4: You took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire.
37:26
Speaker 4: I hadn't a suspicion. But then, thinking how I had
37:30
Speaker 4: betrayed myself, I began to reflect. I had been warned about.
37:34
Speaker 5: You months ago.
37:36
Speaker 4: I had been told that if the king employed an agent,
37:39
Speaker 4: it would certainly be you. Your address had been given
37:43
Speaker 4: to me.
37:43
Speaker 1: Yet with all this, You made.
37:45
Speaker 5: Me reveal what you wanted to know.
37:48
Speaker 4: Even after I became suspicious, I found it hard.
37:51
Speaker 5: To think evil of such a dear, kind, old clergyman.
37:56
Speaker 4: But, as you know, I have been trained as an
38:00
Speaker 4: actress myself. Male costume is nothing new to me.
38:04
Speaker 5: I often take advantage of the freedom it gives.
38:08
Speaker 4: I sent my coachman to watch you. I ran upstairs,
38:11
Speaker 4: got into what I call my walking.
38:13
Speaker 5: Clothes, and followed you. When I came to your door, I.
38:18
Speaker 4: Was convinced that I was really an object of interest
38:21
Speaker 4: to the celebrated Mr.
38:23
Speaker 5: Sherlock Holmes.
38:25
Speaker 4: Then I rather imprudently wished you good night and started
38:29
Speaker 4: for the temple to meet my husband. We agreed that
38:32
Speaker 4: our best resource was flight when pursued by so formidable
38:35
Speaker 4: an antagonist. So you will find the nest empty when
38:40
Speaker 4: you call. As to the photograph, Your client may ease
38:44
Speaker 4: his mind. I love and am loved by a man
38:49
Speaker 4: better than he. The king may do what he will
38:52
Speaker 4: without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly wronged. I
38:56
Speaker 4: keep it only to safeguard myself. I leave a photograph
39:01
Speaker 4: which he might care to possess.
39:03
Speaker 5: And I remain, dear Mr.
39:05
Speaker 4: Sherlock Holmes, very truly yours, Irene Norton.
39:10
Speaker 1: Nay.
39:13
Speaker 2: Water woman. Oh, water woman. Did I not tell you
39:18
Speaker 2: how quick and resolute she was?
39:22
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that I have been unable to bring this
39:24
Speaker 1: business to a successful conclusion.
39:27
Speaker 2: On the contrary. I know that... her word is inviolate.
39:32
Speaker 2: The photograph is now as safe as if it were
39:34
Speaker 2: in the fire. You will please tell me how I
39:38
Speaker 2: may reward you. Oh, this ring I take from my finger,
39:42
Speaker 2: I should be happy to.
39:44
Speaker 1: Your Majesty has something which I should value even more highly.
39:47
Speaker 1: Name it. This photograph.
39:51
Speaker 2: Irene's photograph?
39:52
Speaker 1: Yes.
39:54
Speaker 2: This is yours. Take it if you wish.
39:57
Speaker 1: Then I thank your majesty and wish you a very
40:01
Speaker 1: good morning. It is, of course, history that the photograph
40:20
Speaker 1: remained always on Holmes' mantle. As far as his actually
40:28
Speaker 1: having been in love with Irene Adler, that is something
40:31
Speaker 1: which is debatable. I'll be back to give you my
40:41
Speaker 1: reasons for thinking it highly likely in.
40:43
Speaker 2: Just a moment.
40:59
Speaker 1: My reasons for thinking that it was more than likely
41:02
Speaker 1: that Holmes did lose his heart to the lovely Irene
41:05
Speaker 1: Adler can be found in the future works of Sir
41:08
Speaker 1: Arthur Conan Doyle. Prior to his writing A Scandal in Bohemia,
41:19
Speaker 1: he always had Holmes make merry over the.
41:21
Speaker 2: Cleverness of women.
41:23
Speaker 1: But from that story on, Holmes never again mocked the
41:26
Speaker 1: abilities of the fair sex. Of course, we know that
41:33
Speaker 1: whenever he referred to Irene Adler, he always gave her
41:36
Speaker 1: the honored title of the woman. Our cast included Kevin McCarthy,
41:45
Speaker 1: Court Benson, Marion Seldes, and William Griffiths. The entire production
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Speaker 1: was under the direction of Hyman Brown. And now, a
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Speaker 1: preview of our next tale.
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Speaker 2: Do you know my wife? Oh, yes. How is she?
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Speaker 2: As ravishing as ever. Oh, Master Derbyl.
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Speaker 1: If I'd come through all this better looking, if I
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Speaker 1: hadn't been so disfigured by my wounds, so aged by
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Speaker 1: my suffering, my fate might have been different.
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Speaker 2: I have the face of a requiem.
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Speaker 1: I'm dressed in rags and I've lost nearly.
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Speaker 2: Every hair on my head.
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Speaker 1: But there's one person who knows me intimately, whom I
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Speaker 1: know equally well, who could never deny me, no matter
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Speaker 1: how much I changed.
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Speaker 2: I sent letters, I.
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Speaker 1: I left addresses. I returned to post offices time and again,
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Speaker 1: but no answers, no letters, no money. My wife showed
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Speaker 1: no sign of life. Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in
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Speaker 1: part by Buick Motor Division and Exlax.
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Speaker 2: This is E.G.
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Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
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Speaker 1: another adventure in the macabre.
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Speaker 5: Until next time, pleasant dreams.